From The Times and Tutenkhamen in 1922 to the Daily Express tracking down Ronnie Biggs in Rio in 1974 and the Daily Mirror’s 1978 revelations about Joyce Mckinney and the Manacled Mormon – this list provides an entertaining and inspiring romp through UK journalism history.

The biggest scoop ever? For the worldwide ramifications, John Rettie’s revelation of Khrushchev’s denunciation of Stalin for Reuters in 1956 is hard to beat, with the Sunday Times’s revelations about Israel’s secret nuclear arsenal from 1986 perhaps a close second.

In terms of UK significance, in 2009 we decided that the top scoop went to the Telegraph and MPs’ expenses. Getting the story may have involved a cash transaction, but running with it even though the information was apparently stolen took guts. And the rigorous way the Telegraph explored all the ramifications of the tale was exemplary.